The Future

2025 Thinkers – MORE TO COME…

Andrew Kriegler

CEO & President, Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)

Kofi Adjepong-Boateng

former Vice Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank Group and Research Associate, Centre for Financial History, Cambridge University. Former Chair, Policy Committee, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Kaz Nejatian

Chief Operating Officer, Shopify

Sol Rashidi

Head of Technology, North American Startups, Amazon Web Services

Philip Mudd

First Deputy Director of the FBI National Security Branch (NSB) Former Deputy Director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center

Alexandra Williams

Director U.S. Startups, Google Cloud

George Vegh

Chair, Canada Energy Regulator (CER). Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Devon Kirk

Partner & Co-Head, Portage Capital Solutions, Portage

Susan Hawkins

President and CEO, Payments Canada

Dr. Bob Bell

Former Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Health Former President & CEO, University Health Network (UHN)

Lucas Matheson

CEO, Coinbase Canada

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Chief Financial Officer, Payments Canada

Dean Skurka

President and CEO, WonderFi

Parna Sabet-Stephenson

Partner, Leader of Financial Services & Technology (FSxT), Gowling WLG

Julien Brazeau

Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Finance Canada

Neil Parmenter

Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Bell Canada

Anthony G. Ostler

CEO & President, Canadian Banking Association

2024 Thinkers

Dr. Ernest Addison

Board Chair & Governor, Bank of Ghana

Raman Rai

Managing Partner, Financial Services, Deloitte Canada

Jeremy Wilmot

President & Chief Executive Officer, Interac Corp.

Nicole Foster

Global Head of AI Public Policy, Amazon

Ramesh Siromani

EVP, Cards, Payments & Transformation, Royal Bank of Canada

Julien Brazeau

Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Finance Canada

Jordan Jacobs

Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Radical Ventures. Co-Founder of Layer 6 and the Vector Institute for AI; Director CIFAR; founding investor and board director of Cohere

Aidan Gomez

CEO & Co-founder, Cohere

Hon. Lisa Raitt

Vice-Chair Global Investment Banking, CIBC Capital Markets

Kofi Adjepong-Boateng

former Vice Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank Group and Research Associate, Centre for Financial History, Cambridge University. Former Chair, Policy Committee, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Hon. David Lametti

Counsel, Fasken. Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General or Canada. Former Professor of Law at McGill

Scott McDonald

Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. President, The Future of Money

James Hicks

President and CEO, Moneris

Andrew Kriegler

CEO & President, Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)

Ron Morrow

Executive Director of Payments Supervision & Oversight, Bank of Canada

Lucas Matheson

CEO (Canada), Coinbase

Isaiah Jackson

Author, Bitcoin and Black America

Tony Gaffney

President & CEO, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Tanya Woods

Head of Government, Regulatory Affairs & Policy Counsel, Questrade

Jas Jaaj

Managing Director AI, Deloitte

Neal Baumann

Partner, Global Financial Services Industry Leader, Deloitte

Jessica Oliver

Government Relations, Wealthsimple

Andrew Caprara

President & CEO, Softchoice

David MacNaughton

President, Palantir Canada

Bob Blainey

RBC Fellow, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Royal Bank of Canada

Aisha Greene

AI Paper Principal Author. Director, Generative AI & Senior Manager, Deloitte AI Institute Canada

Abraham A Tachijan

Director, PWC Canada

Faryar Shirzad

Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase

Dr. Supriya Syal

Deputy Commissioner, Research, Policy & Education, Financial Consumer Agency of Canada

Francis Mensah

CFO, Royal Canadian Mint

Matt Goulet

CEO, Sturdy Exchange (NFT)

Daniel Eberhard

Founder and CEO, KOHO

Michael Abbott

Head of Global Banking, Accenture

Anthony G. Ostler

CEO & President, Canadian Banking Association

Mark A Entwistle

Managing Director, Privus Capital, former Ambassador of Canada to Cuba

Saba Shariff

SVP, Chief Strategy, Product & Innovation, Symcor

Mathew Mehrotra

Chief Digital Officer & Head of Canadian Products, BMO

Anthony Di Iorio

Co-Founder, Ethereum

Michael Kearns

Amazon Scholar, Responsible AI. Author of The Ethical Algorithm. Professor, University of Pennsylvania.

Francisco Rivadeneyra

Director, CBDC, FinTech Policy & Research, Bank of Canada

Parna Sabet-Stephenson

Partner, Leader of Financial Services & Technology (FSxT), Gowling WLG

Emma Todd

CEO, MMH Group

Dante Mossi

Former Executive President, Central American Bank for Economic Integration

José Manuel Marques

Director Financial Innovation & Market Infastructures, Banco de España

Eric Richmond

General Counsel & Head of Business Development, Shakepay

Shannon Katschilo

Country Manager and Head of Canada, Snowflake

Andrew D'Souza

Chairman & Co-Founder, Clearco

Alan Bernstein

Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)

Rizwan Khalfan

EVP, Chief Digital & Payments Officer, TD Bank Group

Jaron Waldman

Chief Product Officer, Cohere

Paul Samson

President, Centre for International Governance Innovation

Neil Parmenter

Senior Vice President & National Lead, Hill & Knowlton

Gillian Riley

President & CEO, Tangerine

Peter Loewen

Director, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Grant Vingoe

CEO, Ontario Securities Commission

Shawn Van Raay

Chief Information Officer, Payments Canada

Matt Linton

CEO & Founder, Rowbot

Dean Skurka

President and CEO, WonderFi

Michelle Beyo

CEO & Founder, Finavator Inc.

Fabrio Comparelli

Digital Artist, Fabdream

Marc-Etienne Ouimette

Principal, AWS Global AI Public Policy.

Eyal Sivan

GM of North America, Ozone API, “Mr. Open Banking”

Jonathan Klein

Chief Technology Officer, KOHO

Alex Tapscott

Author, Web3. Co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute. Managing Director, Ninepoint Partners

Heather Kay

Head of Financial Services Public Policy Canada, Amazon Web Services

Federico Berruti

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Miklos Dietz

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Kwadwo Adjepong-Boateng

Public Policy Strategist and Consultant

John Mulvihill

President, Mulvihill Capital

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Chief Financial Officer, Payments Canada

Mathieu Staniulis

Vice-President Digital & Personal Services Chief Transformation Officer, Desjardins

Shannon Bent

Managing Director, Othership

Jennifer Karkula

Chief of Staff, MMH Group

Alana Scotchmer

Partner, Financial Services Regulations, Gowling WLG

John Lancefield

Private Equity Investor, Delmar Capital

Naïm Antaki

Partner, Co-Leader of Artificial Intelligence Group, Gowling WLG

Holger Kormann

President & Chief Executive Officer, Symcor

Sam Ishak

CIO, FCT

Andrew O'Born

President, TPH

Romana Mizdrak

Managing Director, Risk Quantification Division, OSFI

Gary Schwartz

CEO & President, Canadian Lenders Association

Miguel Diaz

Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, Bank for International Settlements – Basel, Switzerland

Deval Pandya

Vice-President of AI Engineering, Vector Institute

Dariush Shoja

Vice President and Corporate CIO, Sun Life

Jay Dorey

Head of Corporate Affairs, Visa

Hwan Kim

Partner, Financial Services Strategy & Innovation, Deloitte

Michael Kousaie

Vice-President Strategy, Partnerships & Corporate Development, Toronto Stock Exchange

Jonathan Rosenbluth

Director of Product, Cohere

Gregory Smith

Senior Partner, Financial Services, Kyndrl

Andrew Hall

VP, Data Science & Management, Moneris

Ronnie Sanders

Digital Data & Analytics, RBC

Abraham Theodore

Head of Product, NDAX

Andrei Poliakov

CEO & Founder, APX Lending

Debbie Gamble

Group Head and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Interac

Ethan Buchman

Co-founder, Cosmos; CEO, Informal Systems

Ozge Yeloglu

VP, Advanced Analytics and AI, CIBC

Kobena Acquaah-Harrison

Cultural Development Director, Producer & Composer, Abandze Embassy

2022 Thinkers

Peter Loewen

Director, Munk School

Neil McLaughlin

Group Head, Personal & Commercial Banking, Royal Bank of Canada

Jaime Leverton

CEO, Hut 8

Max Bardon

Head of Worldwide Payments, Amazon

Edward Kholodenko

CEO & Founder, Questrade

Tamara Haasen

President, Input Output Global (Cardano)

Anthony Di Iorio

Founder & CEO, Decentral Inc. & Jaxx / Co-Founder Ethereum

Jay Rajarathinam

Chief Operating Officer, TMX Group

John Nicola

CEO & Founder, Nicola Wealth

Timothy Lane

Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

Andrew Chau

CEO and Co-Founder, Neo Financial

Emma Todd

Founder & CEO, MMH Technology Group

Eric Gales

Country Manager, Amazon Web Services Canada

Matt Goulet

CEO, Sturdy Exchange (NFT)

Tammy Chiasson

President, Connected

Rizwan Khalfan

EVP, Chief Digital & Payments Officer, TD Bank Group

Mike Katchen

CEO & Founder, Wealthsimple

Bilal Khan

Canadian Managing Director, Snowflake

Neil Parmenter

Chief Counsel, Global Public Affairs

Lawrence Truong

CEO, Binance Canada

Kevin Strain

President & CEO, Sun Life

Patricia Nielsen

Sales Leader, Startups AWS

COZMIC CAT

House Music Producer, DJ

Dan Breznitz

Munk Chair in Innovation Studies and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School

Daniel Munro

Fellow & Whitepaper Author, Munk School

Erica Salinas

Blockchain Technical Leader, Amazon

Mat Mehrotra

Chief Digital Officer, P&BB and Wealth, BMO

Sully Malaeb Proulx

Contemporary Dancer, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre

Mark O’Connell

President & CEO, Interac

Jeff Adamson

Chief Merchant Officer and Co-Founder, Neo Financial

Larissa De Lima

Senior Fellow, Oliver Wyman Forum

Dan Rees

Group Head, Canadian Banking, Scotiabank

Alex Tapscott

Co-Founder BRI & Ninepoint Digital Asset Group, Blockchain Research Institute

Harold Spencer Jr.

Staff Platform Engineer, Brave Software Inc.

Carlos Acevedo

Senior Director of Sales, Regional Lead Latam, Brave Software Inc.

Michael Abbott

Head of Global Banking, Accenture

Brian Hayes

Financial Services Industry Leader, VMware

Lynn Gummow

Vice President, Legal, Strategy & Operations, Cardano (ADA)

Chris Sweetland

Senior Vice-President, Payments Strategy & Transformation, CIBC

Cyrielle Chiron

Chief Strategy Officer, Payments Canada

Miklós Dietz

Senior Partner and Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company Canada

Guy Vigeant

President, Canada, CGI

Connie Ryan

Regional Vice President, Global Banking, Tanium

William Keliehor

Chief Commercial Officer, Interac Corp

Tom Ross

Country Manager, Checkmarx

Alex Ma

Senior Counsel, Binance Canada

Sandro Knöpfel

Head of Financial & Regulated Institutions, Cardano (ADA)

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